Angle between the rotational axis and orbital axis of a body.
1 The Chinese also determined the obliquity of the ecliptic eleven hundred years before our era.
2 The obliquity of the ecliptic is, to a degree, sustained by the relationship between Moon and Earth.
3 Technically, the difference is due to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit and the obliquity of the ecliptic .
4 By these he had calculated the obliquity of the ecliptic , closely enough to serve for a thousand years after.
5 Pythagoras taught the obliquity of the ecliptic , probably learned in Egypt, and the identity of the morning and evening stars.
6 Belt, on the other hand, held that the cold was due to an increase in the obliquity of the ecliptic .
7 Pythagoras, born 580 B.C., taught the obliquity of the ecliptic , probably learned in Egypt, and the identity of the morning and evening stars.
8 He had investigated the obliquity of the ecliptic with extreme care, so far as the circumstances of astronomical observation would at that time permit.
9 They determined the obliquity of the ecliptic , one thousand one hundred years before our era, to be 23 degrees 54' 3-15.
10 "He determined," says Delambre, "the position of the stars by right ascensions and declinations, and was acquainted with the obliquity of the ecliptic .
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